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Rocambole: Volume 1-The Dark Side
ISBN: 9781461139287 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rocambole is a mystery adventure epic by the French author, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829 - 1871). It is the story of an adventurer and criminal who started life on the wrong side of the law, redeemed himself, and then devoted his life to doing good. The Rocambole saga has been acknowledged for transitioning the old-fashioned gothic novel to modern heroic fiction thus starting the genres of adventure crime fiction novels. Before there was a Sherlock Holmes, Scarlet Pimpernel, Hercule Poirot, the Saint, Arsene Lupin, and James Bond, there was Rocambole. The stories take the reader back...
Rocambole is a mystery adventure epic by the French author, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829 - 1871). It is the story of an adventurer and crimin...
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The Delivery Girl
ISBN: 9781467957328 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A small town country girl makes a move to the big city and lands the perfect job just in the nick of time. However it's not your typical job. It's anything but. As the executive assistant to the highly powered, highly connected mafioso made man Stephano Ricci, she takes on jobs that test her courage, her patience, and her shopping skills. With twists and turns, guns and runs, she's finding herself in deeper than she ever imagined. Will she survive long enough to realize the man of her dreams, Mr. Right and not just Mr. Right Now, is closer than she realized?
A small town country girl makes a move to the big city and lands the perfect job just in the nick of time. However it's not your typical job. It's any...
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Pork and Beans: A Chicago Story
ISBN: 9781469929941 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pork and Beans is a thrilling journey into gangland Chicago set in the 1950's in the waning days of the absolute power and corruption of the gang controlled streets. This story is a collection of memories about true stories and actual events from one man who relates his efforts to leave the organized crime environment of the infamous Melrose Park; and his life of criminal cronies to begin a new and normal life. The story is an incredible and revealing narrative about life on the inside of the gritty gangland lifestyle. It is a compelling and contemporary accounting that brings forth an array...
Pork and Beans is a thrilling journey into gangland Chicago set in the 1950's in the waning days of the absolute power and corruption of the gang cont...
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Inside the Shadow in Jaffa Gate
ISBN: 9783845445809 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You have entered another world, a world where ancient architecture and stone commingle with modern and traditional sights and sounds. It is place where people and animals outnumber vehicles. You are in a plaza with small shops and restaurants to the left, and Davids Citadel to the right. Nearby streets are narrow, and you can hear your footsteps hitting stone. If you proceed straight ahead from Jaffa Gate, you enter one of the many long and partially covered bazaars. This is the David Street Bazaar. If you proceed to the right you enter the Armenian Christian Quarter. ...
You have entered another world, a world where ancient architecture and stone commingle with modern and traditional sights and sounds. It is place whe...
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89,01 |
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Death Forecast
ISBN: 9783845446134 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world where a secretive governing body pulls the strings of an oblivious town, a brilliant young man accepts a risky gamble with The Grim Reaper himself and ends up winning. As a reward he is granted three supernatural powers that he begins to use to save fellow citizens whose deaths have been predicted in the mysterious Death Forecast. Unfortunately The Reaper is still bitter and after his life. Can a predetermined fate be altered?
In a world where a secretive governing body pulls the strings of an oblivious town, a brilliant young man accepts a risky gamble with The Grim Reaper ...
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89,01 |
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Dillinger
ISBN: 9781453258354 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A novel of the last, desperate days of John Dillinger, America's most notorious bank robber
In 1934, after his spectacular jailbreak from a cell in Indiana, Dillinger was like a ghost--some claimed to spot him in New York, others in London, New Orleans, or California. Though the FBI would eventually find and kill Dillinger in Chicago, speculation about his whereabouts in those mysterious final months never waned. In Jack Higgins's suspenseful imagining, Dillinger flees to Mexico, where his attempts at finding freedom launch the fugitive into the clutches of men much more dangerous... A novel of the last, desperate days of John Dillinger, America's most notorious bank robber
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64,58 |
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one bad twelve
ISBN: 9781475045000 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A group of Mafia wiseguys sweat it out as they wait to hear who's snitched on them in "Up a Rung," a disturbed woman loses more than her mind in "Possession," and a postman's larcenous streak gets him in a terrible mess just a few days before Christmas in "Special Delivery." There are just a few of the thirteen tales that had to be bribed, shoved, and bullied into ONE BAD TWELVE. These stories-chock full of dirty motives, relentless ambitions, and a lop-sided view of the world-aren't used to being pushed around. Read them, buy them, or ignore them...just don't turn your back on them. ONE BAD...
A group of Mafia wiseguys sweat it out as they wait to hear who's snitched on them in "Up a Rung," a disturbed woman loses more than her mind in "Poss...
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Scoundrels: Tales of Greed, Murder and Financial Crimes
ISBN: 9781937495220 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Scoundrels, an all-original anthology featuring bestselling and Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers, you'll read stories of desperate grifters, brokers hedging big bets for the big take, schemers working the long con for the sure money, used car salesman with golden dreams and rusted hopes, crooked lawyers and bent clients, one percenters hustling for that last half-percent, kind-hearted killers and the lonely hearted who tell themselves any lie as the double down for the long count.
In Scoundrels, an all-original anthology featuring bestselling and Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers, you'll read stories of desperate grifters, ...
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60,63 |
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Atomic City Crime Story
ISBN: 9781490991429 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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35,88 |
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Keeping Counsel
ISBN: 9780615608556 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Mexico attorney Tara Linley's belief in the power and fairness of the law is shaken when she takes on her best friend's lover as a client. After reluctantly agreeing to represent him, Tara discovers the shocking crime he has committed. Bound by the attorney-client privilege, caught in a web of escalating circumstances that threaten not only her professional reputation but her life, Tara soon finds herself at the mercy of her unstable client...a man who is growing more dangerous every day.
New Mexico attorney Tara Linley's belief in the power and fairness of the law is shaken when she takes on her best friend's lover as a client. After r...
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54,87 |
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Pawns: The Paperback Novel
ISBN: 9780984813315 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's Pap. Set in San Francisco at the unsuspected end of World War II, the fictionalized story based on two true events. This is a sensual, social intrigue in a Chinese gambling parlor, from the effete streets and into the newsroom of the San Francisco Chronicle. Reporter Don Day writes about west coast finance, of murder, arms dealing and the unvealing of the actual story behind the Rosenberg treason scandal that ended with their exicution in Sing Sing prision after the A-Bomb brought an end to WW II, in Japan.
It's Pap. Set in San Francisco at the unsuspected end of World War II, the fictionalized story based on two true events. This is a sensual, social int...
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63,66 |
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Homeless!
ISBN: 9781475108859 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tom Mathews (aka Sparks) is homeless, living on the back streets of San Francisco. He is a non person, without money, job, decent clothes or home. Everyday is a bad day, with rarely enough food and lives in a plastic tent. He is surrounded by a variety of other homeless people, many who are ruthless and violent. Tom's enemies, in addition to natural elements is the constant threat of harassment from those in authority and violent street thugs. To escape he must neutralize his enemies and learns quickly how to respond in kind in order to save his life. His longing for a normal life drives his...
Tom Mathews (aka Sparks) is homeless, living on the back streets of San Francisco. He is a non person, without money, job, decent clothes or home. Eve...
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Prince of Omerta
ISBN: 9781927337080 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Johnny Valenti is a hit man as well as a man committed to ethics. True, the standard he abides by is somewhat different from traditional ethics, yet he is a man of principle. His uncompromising commitment is to omerta - the code of silence. He believes when you are involved in murder, arson, extortion, and other such crimes, you keep your mouth shut, no matter what. So living up to his beliefs, Valenti takes the rap for a murder he did not commit, and serves eighteen years in prison. When he gets out, using his professional skills, he takes care of the rat that framed him. Finally free, he...
Johnny Valenti is a hit man as well as a man committed to ethics. True, the standard he abides by is somewhat different from traditional ethics, yet h...
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45,90 |
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Der Garten der Qualen
ISBN: 9783843069106 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,53 |
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Key to Cabo: A Rock Pounder Novel
ISBN: 9780974055114 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Danger is a way of life for Rock Pounder, so when the DEA asks him to recover $250 million in drug money hidden somewhere in Mexico, the 10% finder s fee makes the risk worthwhile for Rock and his team. The money comes from an Asian drug lord for the purchase of drug routes into the United States from a Mexican cartel, which makes twice as much danger for Rock and his team. When his beautiful publisher Penelope Dickens Frost finds herself in possession of a key that leads to the drug money, Rock finds trouble on more levels than he ever expected. Penelope is one of the only women who hasn... Danger is a way of life for Rock Pounder, so when the DEA asks him to recover $250 million in drug money hidden somewhere in Mexico, the 10% finder... |
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A Time To Hustle
ISBN: 9781468177879 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Navy fighter pilot Tim Johnson returns home to South Florida from Vietnam in 1973 with a plan. In order to execute it he will need the help of his younger brother Tommy and his less than scrupulous friends but trying to keep things a secret and off the radar of law enforcement may be harder than he thinks. Based on events and accounts, A Time to Hustle is a gripping pulse pounding ride into the illegal and dangerous underworld of the narcotics trade in the 1970's. This story is fiction. It is loosely based on actual events that happened a long time ago. All of the names and locations have...
Navy fighter pilot Tim Johnson returns home to South Florida from Vietnam in 1973 with a plan. In order to execute it he will need the help of his you...
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The Testing Point
ISBN: 9781475146882 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a prostitute is murdered in a motel room, and an eyewitness points his finger at a cop, it seems an open and shut case - especially when the officer can't explain the fact that his gun, which never left his holster, is the murder weapon. But Officer Ben Grasso, new to the police force but not to the street, isn't buying the official story. As he begins his unauthorized investigation, Grasso is assigned a new partner - Dina Greenbaum. She quickly learns of her partner's dangerous investigation and, despite lessons from her past that should have warned her away, she decides to help....
When a prostitute is murdered in a motel room, and an eyewitness points his finger at a cop, it seems an open and shut case - especially when the offi...
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Motherless Children
ISBN: 9781475194166 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Danny Tobin is a killer. He knows death in the way others know life. He knows its smells, he knows its touch, he knows the lovely promises it will always fail to keep and he knows the euphoria it can bring. Danny Tobin is also a cop. When a vicious late-summer storm on the coast of Massachusetts leads to the discovery of eight dead prostitutes in an abandoned cranberry bog in the wealthy town of Duxbury, Danny, a driven and conflicted state police detective, is pulled into a complex investigation that will reach all the way to the top of the department and force him to deal with events,...
Danny Tobin is a killer. He knows death in the way others know life. He knows its smells, he knows its touch, he knows the lovely promises it will alw...
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Glamour Ghost
ISBN: 9781468169454 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Silver Bear, a young journalist from San Diego, travels to Hollywood in search of her best friend. After landing the job that Piper once had at a celebrity news magazine, she begins searching for clues that will solve the mystery of the disappearance. Without the help of her resident ghost, Marilyn Monroe, Silver wouldn't have a chance to entice her boss let alone find her friend. With humor and wisdom, Marilyn teaches Silver some of life's most important lessons and helps Silver's multibillionaire boss fall in love with her. And with a little guidance from Marilyn, she ultimately finds her...
Silver Bear, a young journalist from San Diego, travels to Hollywood in search of her best friend. After landing the job that Piper once had at a cele...
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Man-Slaughter: Key West Nocturnes Series
ISBN: 9781475074727 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Mike Dennis is a modern master of noir." MAX ALLAN COLLINS, author of Road To Perdition It's hot in the Florida Keys in August. For Teddy Myles, it's even hotter as he tries to outrun both the law and his partners in crime. He flees to Key West to set up a new identity and an escape to the Caribbean. But he meets up with Gail, a sexy local, who has other things in mind for him. Soon, he finds himself trapped into pulling one more job, this one for over a million. His former partners are tracking him, the cops are onto him, and a hurricane is coming. Time is running out, but will it be on his...
"Mike Dennis is a modern master of noir." MAX ALLAN COLLINS, author of Road To Perdition It's hot in the Florida Keys in August. For Teddy Myles, it's...
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